Android 5.0 brings with it a big redesign of the notification and Quick Settings area, but there was a seemingly odd quirk in the first developer preview. You could see the notifications when Quick Settings was open, but you couldn't interact. Now you can.

Android 5.0 will collapse the list of notifications if you have a lot of them, but it won't hide them. So the top few will be visible, and now you can tap and swipe down there without closing Quick Settings. It's more convenient than the KitKat and earlier style where quick settings completely hides all the notifications. This is much more convenient and I think should alleviate any concern people had about the new layout.

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Can you turn off the brightness slider? Seems pointless if you always use auto-brightness.

Luke Applegate

Its actually adaptive brightness. You set a base brightness, then it adjusts around that automatically within a range.

blindexecutioner

Can it be removed from the panel? I didn't realize they changed how auto-brightness worked. I never had an issue with it before. Anyway, once I set it I assume I'll never touch it again, like how I use auto brightness now and since I started using smartphones.

frewquinnn

why?? its a quick settings panel.. you mean customizing the panel??

blindexecutioner

Why? Because I like controlling how my phone looks and works. It is 80% of the reason I use Android. If I wanted design decisions dictated to me I'd use iOS which is done really well. It is just too rigid for me.

Luke Applegate

This is why there will always be custom roms.

Alberto Blasi

or an Xposed module.

Andrew

Hopefully Xposed can be updated to work on ART now.

AuroraFlux

Well knock knock, you have never been able to customize toggles in stock Android. You sound like you're used to custom ROMs, which you can be damn sure will be available the moment CM and others get their hands on source, so maybe you should stop being so dramatic.

You could set the slider to maximum and it will work just as the auto-brightness did before. Though adaptive brightness does help save battery afaik.

Jn_thW

Quick settings is not there if you don't pull it down, so it won't really be in the way when you read your notifications unlike on Samsung devices.

Shark Bait

I like the changes made to the notification tray the most. Works real nice in the developer preview. Very much ready for the full release

Amit_N

As system seems completely baked , Google must be currently working on getting gapps materialized and final regression testing.. We will have to live till that ...before we see another bigtime "itshappening.gif" day ;)..

It doesn't work with ART yet - you are correct. But I'm sure it will soon!

Spasillium

You mean CM 12.0

SpanishAbh

CM ! really!!! their rom became shitty now a days after the became a corporation. AOKP and PA is much better option. personally i use AOKP based Resurrection Remix Rom for my Nexus 4 , its much better Try it in older devices or wait for the Nexus 6 lollipop edition . its certainly An Awesome ROM

Dakota

I like the app notification toggles. Let's you not only set your own toggles but frequently used apps in 2 top rows of notification screen. Been really convenient for easy access from any home screen

Martim

...where's the flashlight toggle?

Luke Applegate

It's there if the device has a flash LED

tuvan26

n7 does not have led flash

Martim

Oh, then that must be it. Phew...

Alberto Blasi

where's the flashlight?

Frederic Golz

damn, try to hold down a notification!

Guest

Is that a clear all notifications button?

Playdough

Yes. Already been reported

Lhadalo

Duh.

Raphael Duran

Is that a clear all notifications button I see?

Michael

They mentioned that already in another post (and by "mentioned in a post" I mean a post is dedicated to it)

how do i get the gear settings from notification menu, I swipe from top but there is no option.

J_Pod

I don't know about you, but I liked having one pane for notifications and a separate one for Quick Settings, nice and clean and organized. That's probably the biggest thing I loved when 4.2 was released. I hope some custom roms, OEM Skins, or some Xposed module can make them separate on L.

thartist

Switch back from Quick Settings to Notifications if you don't wanna see QS!!! God!!

J_Pod

Wow, vicious much? (or maybe overly passionate?)

dmo580

While I got used to QS, I liked how CM did it with a small row of toggles in the notification bar in CM10.1 and earlier.

Not sure why Google needs 3 rows to fit 5 buttons and take up 50% of the vertical space in the notification dropdown.

Brad

Drag down with two fingers comes back in this preview....

Crispin Swickard

Its back, but there is 2 awkward swipes up to close it. I hope that is fixed on the final release.

Lynton

Swipe down from the clock area from the slide-to-unlock screen. Brings notifications into full view.

dmo580

While I think Quick Settings are important, the current L layout is a total waste of space (similar to the QS tiles in 4.2+). Not sure why Google doesn't take the elegant CM Notification toggles or Samsung's version and implement it as a small 1-row of icons. Is there a reason why you can only fit two freaking buttons (WiFi and Bluetooth) in the first row? In the screenshot, 5 buttons takes up 50% of the vertical screen space. How ridiculous?

berkan

I accidently added invert colors to quick settings by activating once in accessibility settings now i can't remove it, anyone know how to ?

argran

HOLY CRAP FINALLY

night time browsing just got 10 times better :0

theunknown

This is a known defect in the Dev Preview Release (Cant find the Issue ID on the tracker though)

Notification panel is great but the quick settings part is horrible IMO. Look at that jumbled mess. Top row is single column, next row is made up of two columns, third row is three columns, followed by again a single column. It's very disorienting. Should've followed a proper grid layout.